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sabino Offline
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Survey - What are your PC specs?
I am going to buy a new PC to work with Esenthel Engine. I would like to start a survey and ask your PC specs, so I will analyze the hardware specs of many members of the community and this will help me to choose my PC parts.
Thank you for answers, please specify CPU, GPU and RAM. Your answer will help me to choose a good PC. smile

PS. The budget is ~€1000.
Esenthel Source License + Windows 8 = 280
So the budget for the hardware is about €720.
I think that the best choice is Intel CPU + AMD GPU. Do I need a beefy PC to use Esenthel ( my game project contains a lot of physics simulation)?
(This post was last modified: 02-15-2015 02:46 PM by sabino.)
02-15-2015 02:07 PM
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georgatos7 Offline
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RE: Survey - What are your PC specs?
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Esenthel runs fine with mine, so 1,5 year ago that i looked for CPU models an I5 was considered quite good taking into account the price increase of I7s at the time. I also do think that a Nvidia GPU will be a better and safer solution overall but i'm far from being an expert on those matters.
02-15-2015 04:18 PM
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Houge Offline
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RE: Survey - What are your PC specs?
Esenthel runs great.


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02-15-2015 05:58 PM
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RE: Survey - What are your PC specs?
I use AMD FX-8320 8 core cpu
HD7850 and 24GB memory : )
I see Esenthel doesn't have code that checks how many hyperthreads there are to actual physical cores.
02-16-2015 04:42 AM
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sabino Offline
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RE: Survey - What are your PC specs?
Thank you for your answers. smile
Houge and Zervox, why so much RAM?
(This post was last modified: 02-16-2015 08:52 AM by sabino.)
02-16-2015 08:48 AM
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Houge Offline
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RE: Survey - What are your PC specs?
RAM is never too much smile
I use no pagefile, i can run several virtual machines and EE at once. It's very comfortable to work when you are not at the limit of your PC.
02-16-2015 08:58 AM
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LucyDemoon Offline
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RE: Survey - What are your PC specs?
Thats my System grin

The Resolution comes from 3x BenQ XL2420T


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02-17-2015 12:38 AM
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sabino Offline
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RE: Survey - What are your PC specs?
Thank you for your answers. smile
02-17-2015 09:58 AM
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Tottel Offline
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RE: Survey - What are your PC specs?
If you don't really need to make huge open worlds / place lots of dynamic lights / have lots of objects / ..
Then you can get away with a normal computer. smile
I'm developing on my laptop. Sure, I'll have some problems with a huge world with lots of vegetation, but that's not really what I'm developing anyway.

That being said, it's nice to have the option available. Having good hardware is always fun! smile
02-17-2015 10:20 AM
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sabino Offline
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RE: Survey - What are your PC specs?
My game project is an arena game, so I think I need a lot of RAM. I would like to get the source license of Esenthel because I've seen on Internet that it's a very advanced game engine. I saw a video on Youtube that shows the GUI editor, in which you can create your own buttons, progress bar etc. And you have only to drag and drop assets. WOW! grin
And the community is very, very friendly.
Other engines have not these features
By the way, what is a "legacy license"? I've read that some users in this forum have this tag.
(This post was last modified: 02-17-2015 12:04 PM by sabino.)
02-17-2015 12:00 PM
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Tottel Offline
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RE: Survey - What are your PC specs?
The Esenthel engine has gone through a couple different types of licensing. Legacy licensees still have an older version of the engine that doesn't get updated anymore, but also has different license restrictions (such as: license is per-application, per-team, ...)
02-17-2015 12:15 PM
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sabino Offline
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RE: Survey - What are your PC specs?
Tottel, you have a channel on Youtube about Esenthel smile
02-21-2015 08:31 PM
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